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by Arthur » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:41 pm
WSS French gunners - a.k.a the Régiment Royal de l'Artillerie -wore grey coats lined blue with red waistcoats, breeches and stockings. The blue coat with red facings only replaced that uniform in 1720, five years after Louis XIV's death, and blue remained the colour of French artillery uniforms for the rest of the 18th century.
The only French gunners to wear blue coats before 1720 were the Cannoniers des côtes de l'océan, raised in 1702 in La Rochelle to serve coastal guns. The nature of their duties meant they never left their fortresses and didn't serve with the field armies, until they were absorbed into the artillery corps in 1720.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.